Cara Delevingne backs campaign to free detained school girl

Just when you thought Cara Delevingne couldn’t get any damn cooler, she did

The It-girl of the moment is calling for action to be taken against the deportation of a 19-year-old schoolgirl from the models hometown of London.

Yashika Bageerathi faces deportation from the UK to Mauritius, the country she and her family fled from in 2012 to escape an “extremely dangerous” relative.

Delevingne appealed to her casual 1.5 million Twitter followers to #FightforYashika, tweeting “The Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP, Home Secretary: #FightforYashika Stop this sixth form student being deported alone. She deserves a future!”

Although Yashika moved to London with her family, her age means she is being processed independently, so if she is deported she will have to return to Mauritius alone.

The A-grade student has been accepted into several top UK universities, but was taken from school and placed in detention with only her schoolbag while she awaits a legal decision.

“I’m really scared, they will find me easily”, Yashika told the Evening Standard. “They were very violent towards me and my mum since I was a child. I didn’t have any friends out there because of the situation. I never thought I would have so many friends as I do now. I was a girl who never had a voice, but here I am free”.

A grassroots petition from Yashika’s school has grown to gain international attention, aided in no small part by the support of one of the world’s biggest supermodels.

Yashika, her family, and a mass of supporters are currently awaiting a decision by The Home Office.